Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank the minister for being here, along with her guests.
I want to thank you for your opening remarks and your leadership in this very important work. You've touched on a number of issues today in your opening remarks, and I'm interested in following up on a number of them. However, I only have seven minutes, so I'll try to pick the ones that stood out to me the most.
While you didn't raise this in your opening remarks, my first question is in regard to suicide prevention.
Suicide is a very tragic event that affects far too many Canadian families. I am one of those families, a survivor of suicide in my family 23 years ago. Each year several thousand Canadians lose their lives to suicide. The World Health Organization estimates that in Canada the rate of suicide is 15 people for every 100,000.
In the House of Commons last month we had an important debate on suicide prevention. Could you tell us what our government is doing to address this very important issue?